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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  controller, using an accelerometer to detect steps on a virtual piano keyboard ... -Saëns' The Swan on it as a nod to the very first lecture, where Ian showed us a ... semester, I’m taking 21M.370 – Digital Instrument Design! It’s a new

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  a postscript to Nehalita -- I hear you on the forcible DOFMH. We had ... going to be brief -- the new freshmen remind me of bouncy balls and are ... I went over to East Campus for a rush party (and because Random always

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  to this area, though you can die instantly from such an injury. On a ... ." Professor Blanco is looking for some students to build a full ... and easy to use, so it cuts down significantly on suturing time and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  every stop on the T without leaving. The T is central to the college ... first-year class went to the aquarium. On our way back, past midnight, we ... managed anyways, somehow. I’ve talked to a woman crocheting while waiting

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  on average? How much does a character tend to say? What does this say ... I started watching Friends a few weeks ago. I thought it was going to ... , 10+ weeks of non-stop assignments gave way to a week of utter

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  .   I’m 18 and a freshman. I don’t have time to waste on video games ... health. I’m 20 and a junior. I inline skate to everywhere on campus ... - always on my way to somewhere. One day, a friend tells me, “Hanging out

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  post. I just had a laptop, phone, and the microphone on some earbuds to ... YEARS to land on a writing process that clicked with me. Honestly, I ... great. It’s nice and cool outside, so you go to sit on the front porch

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  , which to date has included topics on global warming and a unit on public ... out and find a new place to live. With the help of his well ... coming to a close, but I’m happy to say that the term is taking shape quite

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  to rise and after mumbling a couple of sleepy words no doubt filled ... lose a life for each such word. I’m supposed to meet up with my advisor ... heart palpitations (yes, this is a not-even-slightly-veiled reference to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  ="The icing on the cake, the cake is a lie, to take the cake, and cakewalk ... cookie, it might be able to recognize itself quickly as a junk-food junkie ... sociocultural factors and your willingness to be quiet as a child and not your

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  , and New Mexico. When we return from such travels, we have to write up a ... travel - not because Stu really wants to send me on a paid vacation, or ... at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  the happy expressions of all these people; where learning to play a new ... around 10am, got my pass and a guidebook around 10:45, and headed over to ... independent games as a product of wanting to make something you’re proud of and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  would like to write on your behalf, it is a good idea to have a conversation with each teacher about a) if they would be willing to write you a ... , and that they are far more inclined to put a premium on thoughtfulness

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  find a new place to buy clothes. Here's the video Prof. Winston was ... walked around for three hours. Then, he was off to do soundchecks. A few ... Black Eyed Peas played to a sold-out crowd at the TD Banknorth Garden. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  't really on either of our minds. And we were lucky enough to be in a position ... , worked together to make an animated short, and worked a lot on our blogger ... actually, to our surprise, ended up with a great summer at home! On campus

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  hallway to climbing a rock wall on the side of a student-built wooden fort ... had a small award ceremony on the Kendall Rooftop Garden to celebrate ... MIT is a weird school. Seriously. If I asked you to picture a normal

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  I've spent the last five months living at home on Long Island, New ... could start a new season of my life. I packed up about half of my worldly ... dear friend on a Christmas tree farm. The other half of my possessions

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  blasters connected to a backpack which served as a massive ammo hopper ... of you probably know what it's like to work on large projects like ... takes a VERY long time... and our last part was going to be finished

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  My cat is a little ball of static lately. It can't be too much fun to ... of my toothpaste and finally confronted the task of getting a new tube ... longer. I don't think I've ever quite emptied a tube of toothpaste to this

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  company) based on humans of new york. it's lucky to share uniquely intimate ... poets, hopeless romantics and people trying to share a shy compliment ... i absolutely love the blogs, but there are a number of other places

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014